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March 6 (Reuters) - Safeway Inc, the second-largest U.S. mainstream grocery store operator, said private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management would acquire the company in a deal valued at about $9.4 billion. The offer price of $40 per share represents a premium of 1.3 percent to Safeway's Thursday closing.

By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON, March 5 (Reuters) - The U.S. Missile Defense Agency on Wednesday said it is requesting $1.9 billion over the next five years to overhaul the ground-based U.S. missile defense system managed by Boeing Co and improve its reliability. Missile Defense Agency Director Vice Admiral James Syring told reporters Tuesday that the agency was asking for about $300 million in fiscal 2015 to redesign the Raytheon Co "kill vehicle" that hits and destroys an enemy missile on contact, add a new long-range radar and fund other measures to help the system better identify and track enemy missiles.

SEOUL, March 6 (Reuters) - South Korea plans to ease rules to make mergers and acquisitions easier for private equity firms and local companies in a bid to facilitate the sale of an estimated 10 trillion won ($9.34 billion) in assets of cash-strapped local conglomerates. The plans, announced by seven ministries and led by the country's finance ministry on Thursday, are geared chiefly toward bolstering appetites for a slew of local distressed assets awaiting sale in sectors like shipping and finance.

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) - Boeing Co has won a contract valued at $1.16 billion for full-rate production of the AH-64E Apache helicopter, the U.S. Defense Department said on Tuesday. It said the contract included 72 remanufactured helicopter systems, 10 new helicopters, six revamped crew trainers and other logistics support. The contract runs through June 30, 2016, the Pentagon said in its daily digest of major weapons contracts.

WASHINGTON, March 3 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama will strike a firmly populist tone in his 2015 budget plan on Tuesday, proposing to pay for an expansion of a popular tax credit for the working poor by eliminating tax breaks claimed by wealthy Americans. The proposal to expand one of the most popular U.S. government poverty reduction programs, the Earned Income Tax Credit, would cost $60 billion, a modest amount in a budget in which the president has $1.014 trillion in spending to parcel out, the White House said.

March 3 (Reuters) - Tyco International Ltd, a maker of fire safety and security systems, said it would sell its South Korean security business to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $1.93 billion and take a charge in the second quarter. The company also said its board had approved an additional share repurchase program of $1.75 billion, increasing the total authorization to $2 billion. Tyco put ADT Korea up for sale last year, attracting bids from Affinity Equity Partners, Bain Capital, KKR & Co and South Korea's MBK Partners as well as Carlyle, Reuters previously reported.